Sunday, 6 August 2017

Botanical Work in Coloured Pencils

I'm really enjoying my coloured pencil work at the moment and am making good progress, getting a feel for the techniques and colours. I'm doing sketchbook work as well as finished pieces.

These are some of my completed exercises worked from my instructional books. This one is an exercise in depicting 3-dimensionality from 'Classic Sketchbook - Botanicals' by Valerie Baines

This one is an exercise on shading white flowers on white paper, from 'Botanical Drawing in Color' by Wendy Hollender. I'm fond of Ox-Eye Daisies so I'm going to work up my own drawing now that I've got the hang of the shading from doing Wendy's version.

About Me

About My Art....

I've had a go at just about everything over the past 10 years...Card making, Art Journals, Collage/Mixed Media, Photography, Papercraft, Ebroidery, and Scrapbooking (I used to design regularly for Scrapbook Magazine).

I still enjoy making cards but I've moved on from craft art to fine art, and my main interest now is Botanical and Wildlife Art. I use watercolours sometimes but my preferred medium is coloured pencils (both the dry type and water-solubles). I am entirely self-taught, learning from books and video tutorials (and trial and error!)

As I get older I'm becoming more and more passionate about nature and conservation issues, and find these are the subjects I want to study and paint.